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A Brilliant Conflict

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

We've all gotten to know Christopher Lloyd as Doc in the "Back to the Future" trilogy" and Uncle Fester in the "Addams Family" movies. But in "Quicksilver Highway", he plays a much different role, that of a mysterious showman with no shortage of horror stories. Some newlyweds learn of a pair of chattering teeth, while a pickpocket learns of a hand gone afoul.Obviously this wasn't any kind of masterpiece. I haven't read the short stories from which the movie's two segments are adapted, so I can't comment on how well they adapted them. Even so, it's a pretty interesting, almost ethereal movie, certainly worth seeing. The DVD cover even manages to make Christopher Lloyd look scary! Also starring Matt Frewer, Raphael Sbarge, Missy Crider, Bill Nunn (Radio Raheem in "Do the Right Thing") and Veronica Cartwright (Cathy in "The Birds").

The two horror greats combine with Quicksilver Highway... Stephen King and Clive Barker side by side make the... unscariest horror movie ever. But one has to admit it is an amusing watch. The attack of the killer teeth (based on King's short story "Chattery Teeth") and the bloody revolution of hands (based on Barker's short story "The Body Politic") just doesn't scream 'HORROR'...The narrator and part hero of the story is Aaron Quicksilver (played skillfully, if unremarkably by Christopher Lloyd), a quirky collector of the weird side of evil. He presents two tales to two people... with the moral of the story... Quicksilver is no moralist. He is more than happy to leave the preaching to the preachers. But these tales intertwine with the lives of the unwillful listeners and the wacky stories come to life in the most awkward of fashions.The King story is bland and uneventful. Naturally with a story about murderous teeth I don't expect "It" type stuff, but it never really unfolds and really makes you uninterested with watching the much better second half of the movie. And it is worth a watch. The story is undeniably superwacky and on some level just plain idiotic... Oh but it is quite brilliant. And Matt Frewer plays the lead here quite masterfully and really is the biggest highlight of this movie.All in all a tale of two halves... one boring and just dull. The second a real nut-case extravaganza and well worth the 45 minutes.

i think that a religious sermon wouldn't be scared... i guess this has something similar to all king movies with more than one tale... it's cinematography is very good, and acting is not bad.it's just that it comes across lame and very cheesy... nothing to be seen here...i give my points from technical aspects...otherwise a miss... i've seen a lot worse too, but this is not a winner.the rest of the lines i'll recommend some horror-movies: the brood the uninvited the entity changeling ...those kinda movies have some depth

Stephen King may be the man behind Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Clairborne and the Green Mile. But he was also the man behind Thinner, Children of the Corn and one of the worst episodes of the X-Files ever. Clive Barker (you could say he is King's English counterpart) was the writer behind Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions. But he was also the man behind the novel Coldheart Canyon. Both writers have talent. But they have pitfalls too; we are all human.And Quicksilver Highway isn't exactly their best.Quicksilver Highway seems like a movie made out of two mediocre stories that came out of the minds of two great writers. Perhaps they were among their worst stories. If that was the case, they shouldn't have made it to television. The first one, the Clattering Teeth, isn't so bad. But it is unoriginal and dull. So dull you just want it to end. But it goes on and on. Eventually it becomes tiresome; since this movie was made for TV, you may find yourself going to the kitchen to look inside the refrigerator before it ends and the other one begins. The second story, the one written by Clive Barker, seems more like the work of Stephen King. Here we have a hand that gets life of its own and turn against its owner. Soon other hands join a revolution. The story could have consumed thirty minutes of your life. But it didn't stop when it should have. Just like the first story, it went on and on. Maybe you can forget about the hands walking around on their own and return to the kitchen. This film may help you gain weight but gets short when it comes to entertaining us. Quicksilver Highway only has two stories. Not five or three like Creepshow I and II. After you watch this film, you feel like you have escaped out of a neverending nightmare. It is obvious that they wanted to stretch the stories long enough to make a film and not another episode of the Twilight Zone.Perhaps it is a good idea to avoid this one at all cost.